Know What You're Talking About.

Competence Is A Narrow Ideal. Competence Makes The Trains Run On Time But Doesn't Know Where They're Going.

Going In And Occupying Iraq, Thus Unilaterally Exceeding The United Nations' Mandate, Would Have Destroyed The Precedent Of International Response To Aggression That We Hoped To Establish. Had We Gone The Invasion Route, The United States Could Conceivably Still Be An Occupying Power In A Bitterly Hostile Land.

We Have Before Us The Opportunity To Forge For Ourselves And For Future Generations A New World Order, A World Where The Rule Of Law, Not The Law Of The Jungle, Governs The Conduct Of Nations. When We Are Successful, And We Will Be, We Have A Real Chance At This New World Order, An Order In Which A Credible United Nations Can Use Its Peacekeeping Role To Fulfill The Promise And Vision Of The U.n.'s Founders.

This Is A Fact: Strength In The Pursuit Of Peace Is No Vice; Isolation In The Pursuit Of Security Is No Virtue.

It's Not Whether People Like You But Whether They Share The Bright Dreams...and Understand The Heartbeat Of The Country.